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The not-for-profit group behind the Firefox browser has unveiled two smartphones running the Firefox OS operating system.

Mozilla revealed two phones in a recent blog posting: the Keon, a smaller phone (pictured below) with a 3.5-inch screen, and the Peak, which has a 4.3-inch screen.

They’ll be made by the Spanish phone maker Geeksphone, and made available to software developers who want to start making apps for Firefox OS, the new, free mobile phone platform that first appeared mid-2011, but which started to gain a bit of momentum last year.

That’s right, the new phones are not for mere mortals, not just yet. Though, that said, how hard could it be to become a Firefox OS developer? The whole point of the new operating system is that anyone can build an app just by packaging up an existing HTML5 website and adding a few “phone things" to it. The phones won’t be available until February. Pricing wasn’t released. Mozilla reckons that by making apps web-based, and thereby transferring many of the apps’ processing requirements back to web servers, Firefox OS phones should have a longer battery life, and run more smoothly than other smartphones. The other advantage of web-based apps is that they should run on multiple devices: an HTML5-based app that runs on Firefox OS should run with little or no modification on any HTML5 platform, such as that aforementioned BlackBerry 10 platform, which is finally, FINALLY being launched this week.

The most interesting thing about Firefox OS, though, is that it’s mostly funded by Google.

The watch-cum-screen-extension-for-iPhone-or-Android with the e-paper screen, Pebble, has started shipping to people who backed the project on Kickstarter.

Pebble Technology, the company that received $US10,2666,845 worth of Kickstarter pledges for its nifty new watch, when all it asked for was $US100,000, put up photos of cartons full of the finished product, ready to leave the factory.

They’ll ship to people who made pledges large enough to secure a watch, which ordinarily will sell for $US150.

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Pebble watches are a little like what Sony was doing with its SmartWatch, the primary difference being the Pebble has an e-paper screen, as you might find on a Kobo or Kindle, which hopefully (almost certainly) will mean it’s perfectly usable outdoors. When we reviewed a Sony SmartWatch, that was the biggest problem we had with it: often it was impossible to read the OLED screen.

The main point of owning a Pebble, of course, is that you can use it as a screen extension for your iPhone or Android phone. As with the Sony SmartWatch, this means you have to run special apps on the phone, to send data to the watch via Bluetooth. The company says it submitted its iPhone app for approval a fortnight ago, but it’s still waiting for that approval. The Android app, on the other hand, should be live on the Android Play store before anyone receives their watch in the post.

Some of the things you can do with a Pebble/smartphone combo do look pretty cool. Using the GPS on your phone, you can mount the Pebble on your bicycle’s handlebars and use it as a cycling computer.

Pebble Technology says it’s also working with Freecaddie to make a watch-based golf rangefinder for more than 25,000 golf courses around the world.

What could someone have misunderstood, or misread, to kick off the latest Apple rumour, that the next iPhone will be called the “iPhone Math"?

Could it be that the next iPhone, one of three Apple will reportedly be releasing this year, will be the “iPhone +"? It will, after all, have a larger screen, according to a report coming out of Taiwan: 4.8 inches measured diagonally, compared with the 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5. “iPhone +", or even “iPhone Plus", could easily have been mistranslated to “iPhone Math". Or maybe it’s to be the iPhone Max, along the same lines? Maybe someone overheard an Apple official saying “Max", but misheard it as “Math".

Taiwan’s Commercial Times reported that Apple will this year launch a “counter-offensive" that will involve Apple releasing two phones before June. One of them will be the iPhone 5S, which makes sense, and one of them will be the iPhone Math, which makes no sense whatsoever.

Or does it?

You may recall seeing an ad for the iPhone 5, in which Apple trumpets the fact that the iPhone has a microphone on the back to cancel out ambient noise while you’re on a call.

Viewers of the ad might be forgiven for thinking that this was somehow a new feature in mobile phones, but in fact the technology has been around for years. LG and Motorola have had dual-microphone technology in their phones at least since 2009, but that’s not the impression you get from the Apple ad: you’d swear it was something Apple had just invented.

Could it be that Apple’s counter-offensive will be aimed at the mathematically challenged? The iPhone Math, now with Calculator.